No. 25-5805

Will Earnest Young, Jr. v. Iowa

Lower Court: Iowa
Docketed: 2025-10-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-law criminal-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment supremacy-clause
Key Terms:
DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2025-11-07
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Iowa Code § 814.7 violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution by precluding ineffective assistance of counsel claims on direct appeal

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Iowa Code § 814.7 provides that in the direct appeal of a criminal conviction the defendant may not raise, and the appellate court may not decide, a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, a right guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The question presented is: Whether Iowa Code § 814.7 violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution .

Docket Entries

2025-11-10
Petition DENIED.
2025-10-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/7/2025.
2025-10-13
Waiver of Iowa of right to respond submitted.
2025-10-13
Waiver of right of respondent Iowa to respond filed.
2025-09-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 5, 2025)

Attorneys

Iowa
Darrel MullinsIowas Dept. of Justice, Respondent
Darrel MullinsIowas Dept. of Justice, Respondent
Will Young, Jr.
Alan Roger OstergrenAlan R. Ostergen, PC, Petitioner
Alan Roger OstergrenAlan R. Ostergen, PC, Petitioner